Sergeant Uchida Uchen struggled to pile the third corpse in front of him, so he could hide himself more deeply and be safer.

After doing all this, Sergeant Uchida Uchen could finally relax a little. He placed his rifle on top of the corpse and pulled a cigarette out of his pocket with a trembling hand.

His hands were shaking, and it took him three matches to light the cigarette. He took a deep drag, let it linger in his lungs for a moment, and then exhaled a long plume of smoke.

Sergeant Uchida Uchen felt himself finally relaxing when suddenly, a Japanese soldier crawling forward beside him twitched violently.

Then he stopped moving! Soon after, a stream of blood flowed from under his body, like an ugly little snake, winding its way down the hillside towards him.

Looking at this winding red stream, Sergeant Uchida Uchen suddenly felt that it was a poisonous snake coming for his life.

Trembling, Sergeant Uchida Uchen watched in fear as the red stream flowed closer and closer. He could no longer bear it.

With a scream, he desperately moved his body backward, trying to avoid the blood. Unconsciously, his body had left the shelter built from corpses.

The sound of machine gun fire never stopped. Sergeant Uchida Uchen's back suddenly stiffened, and a piercing pain spread from his body to the depths of his heart.

"I'm injured!" The thought had just flashed through his mind when his injured body automatically reacted. He began to struggle, and the more he struggled, the more bullets he took.

Sergeant Uchida Uchen watched as the blood flowing from his body merged with the red poisonous snake from before, and the enlarged stream of blood flowed faster, heading towards another Japanese soldier hiding nearby.

"You're all going to die!" Sergeant Uchida Uchen muttered.

Captain Fukiishi Tetsuya watched as the soldiers in his company busily piled up corpses to block the machine gun bullets sweeping down from the hilltop.

With the cover, the soldiers lost their will to advance; they stopped moving forward.

How could this be? Captain Fukiishi Tetsuya shouted, "The Kuromori Iisuke squad will provide cover on the spot. The Mizushiro Kinoshita squad and the Sennen Kametaro squad will continue the attack!"

Squad Leader Kuromori Iisuke loudly issued orders, telling his men to fire at the defending soldiers on the hilltop.

Sergeant Isetani Ren heard Squad Leader Kuromori Iisuke's order and shouted to Noguchi Yu beside him, "Push another brick up there."

The command knife he had raised high was now used in a flustered manner to chop down at the approaching bayonet, trying to block the powerful thrust.

Captain Abe Iori blocked the first strike but couldn't parry the follow-up thrust, staring at the bloody hole that suddenly appeared in his chest.

All the strength in his body suddenly vanished. Captain Abe Iori's mind went blank, filled only with fear.

After giving the enemy commander two more stabs, Company Commander Lu continued to charge towards the next Japanese soldier.

Captain Fukiishi Tetsuya saw Captain Abe die with his own eyes, and many other Japanese soldiers also witnessed the scene.

The Japanese soldiers suddenly felt as if they had lost their backbone. Just then, Captain Fukiishi Tetsuya's voice rang out, "Kill!"

He was screaming hoarsely. Even so, the Japanese soldiers who had just lost a captain gained a little support.

They continued to struggle weakly on the battlefield. In the end, none of the two companies of Japanese soldiers escaped; they were all stabbed to death on this battlefield.

Company Commander Lu shouted loudly, "Take only weapons and ammunition, and retreat immediately!"

The smoke of battle dissipated, and all that Battalion Commander Koike Hideki saw were hundreds more corpses on the hillside.

At this moment, he dared not continue to send troops up to attack. Only one infantry company remained in his battalion.

Battalion Commander Koike Hideki ordered, "The Shichijo Taro company will advance one hundred meters up the hillside immediately, establish a defensive line, and not attack!"

He specifically ordered that they not attack. Battalion Commander Koike Hideki was now regretting that he should have established a defensive line on the hillside earlier.

Why did he have to attack and take this hill?

While Battalion Commander Koike Hideki was dealing with the situation passively, Regiment Commander Kawasaki Shiro had already sent out the last infantry battalion in the entire regiment.

At the same time, the four infantry battalions of the 161st Infantry Regiment were also rushing towards the front line of the battlefield.

Today, the encirclement established by the Special Operations Brigade was not large enough to completely surround all the Japanese troops pouring out of Conghua.

Only the Japanese tank regiment, two infantry battalions, and a cavalry regiment that were charging in the front were surrounded.

The remaining Japanese troops were all outside the encirclement.

At this time, outside the encirclement, Regiment Commander Inui Tadao was commanding his Japanese soldiers to attack the blocking force of the Second Regiment stationed at Pingtou Ridge.

Defending here were the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh companies of the Second Regiment.

The remaining troops of the Second Regiment were still maneuvering. Liu Laopao's mission was to destroy the Japanese artillery units.

Liu Laopao was leading his troops to maneuver toward the Japanese artillery regiment.

They had been marching rapidly through the mountains for half an hour. If Japanese planes were looking down from the air, they would clearly see that on both sides of Pingtou Mountain, there was a troop marching in opposite directions.

Both troops were hurrying along, not stopping for a moment.

Lin Fan listened to Liu Laopao's report: "We have reached the attack position. The Japanese artillery is 1,500 meters in front of us.

There are many Japanese soldiers about 1,000 meters away from the artillery. It looks like they should be the Japanese artillerymen."

Lin Fan ordered, "Attack immediately! Take control of the Japanese artillery."

At the same time, Feng Junya's artillery regiment received the order: "Stop bombing the Japanese artillery regiment. Move the bombing target back 3,000 meters, bearing..."

Regiment Commander Inui Tadao, who was leading his troops forward, suddenly heard a whistling sound in the air: this was the sound of shells cutting through the air.

He looked up at the sky and was horrified to see dozens of black dots falling down.

The sounds of explosions, "Boom! Boom!" were deafening.

At the same time, Lin Fan notified the 186th Division and the 153rd Division, which had been lurking on the east and north sides of Conghua City: "Attack Conghua immediately.

The main force of the Japanese army has been held back by our brigade. Now is a good time to attack Conghua." Lin Fan did not have the authority to order these two divisions, he could only inform them of the battlefield situation.

What to do specifically was up to these two divisions to decide!

Counterattacking Conghua was something the Fourth War Area had dreamed of. Although Lin Fan had said when he deployed these two divisions to the edge of Conghua County that he would let them attack Conghua.

However, the reconnaissance teams of these two divisions also saw so many Japanese soldiers coming out of the county town, and the two division commanders were also a little hesitant after hearing the reports from the front lines.

Even though they received Lin Fan's notification that the Special Operations Brigade had held up the Japanese 104th Division near Elephant Mountain and had annihilated the Japanese tank regiment.

The 186th Division of the Fourth War Area was still uneasy. Even if there was only one Japanese battalion in Conghua County, it was not something that these two divisions could conquer.

Division Commander Li Zhen and Division Commander Zhang Ruigui sent telegrams to the Fourth War Area headquarters at the same time, reporting the situation on the front line in detail. They mainly reported that the Japanese army in Conghua had a large number of troops and powerful weapons and equipment.

Chief of Staff Wang of the Fourth War Area had been on the front line, following Lin Fan and seeing how the Special Operations Brigade fought the Japanese army, as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

He strongly recommended to Commander Yu Hanmou: Do what Brigade Commander Lin says, and there will be no mistakes!

While Commander Yu Hanmou was still hesitating, Chief of Staff Wang said, "Counterattack Conghua! Our troops will fire the first shot. Even if we ask the Special Operations Brigade to help take Conghua later, we will still be the ones who started the battle."

Hearing this reason, Commander Yu Hanmou finally agreed.

After all, the order he gave to his subordinates was to send two regiments to follow the Special Operations Brigade to learn combat methods. Lin Fan could issue orders to these two regiments, but the action orders for the 186th Division and the 153rd Division had to be issued by the Fourth War Area headquarters.

Finally making a decision, the Fourth War Area headquarters ordered: "The 186th Division and the 153rd Division will feign an attack on Conghua!"